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THIS MONTH Special offers at Oxo Tower Wharf and Gabriel’s Wharf – see p8 New Year fireworks p2 • London Glassblowing book p7 • Tommy Steele p8 December 2006 THE WATERLOO COMMUNITY SOLICITORS We can help with all your legal problems ■ Property ■ Family ■ Children ■ Housing ■ Criminal For a friendly professional service Only two minutes from Waterloo Station SE1 Contact Steel & Shamash 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • London • SE1 7AA Tel: 020 7803 3999 inIssue 102 FREE Email: [email protected] Thousands expected Christmas in Waterloo at Bankside Frost Fair At the lighting of Children will be able to enjoy husky Waterloo’s Christmas sledding rides at this month’s Frost Fair Tree there will be a Pigs on Bankside. & Princesses theme to The three day fair opens at 4pm on Friday 15 mark the launch of the December with a Twelve Days of Christmas lantern procession from Southwark Cathedral to Tate Modern. Young Vic’s family show This will be the fourth Frost Fair to take place along The Enchanted Pig. the River Thames since the historic fair was revived in 2003. The lights switch-on will be Now the fair is described as ‘London’s biggest free winter just part of an all-day ‘Christmas event’ and attracts over 100,000 visitors. at Waterloo’ programme on For this year’s event Shakespeare’s Globe is transforming Thursday 7 December organised its undercroft into a market with a winter wonderland of by the Waterloo Quarter Business snow covered fir trees and twinkling lights. Visitors will be Globe and a Bankside gift pack upon arrival at the hotel. To Alliance (WQBA) in partnership entertained by musicians in Elizabethan costume. qualify visitors simply quote ‘BBFF’ when booking. with Lambeth Council, local During the 1564 freeze people took to the ice for what “We are delighted to have increased Better Bankside’s businesses, community groups, arts was the first Frost Fair. Since 1814 the river has failed to financial support for the Frost Fair as part of the company’s organisations and the Police. See freeze due to its narrowing and the loss of Old London growing focus on area promotion which is one of its seven listings on page 3 for details Bridge. So on Saturday at noon a traditional Thames core themes, explains chief executive Peter Williams. “The “Christmas at Waterloo is Cutters boat procession will cross the water from the City Bankside Frost Fair is one of the things that makes Bankside an event that brings together all to Bankside Pier. a vibrant place for local employees, local residents and elements of the local community,” Other attractions include ice sculpting, an outdoor visitors alike.” says Lady Samuel, chair of the market, street entertainment, bands and choirs. A beer Cllr Lorraine Zuleta, Southwark Council’s executive WQBA and managing director of tent will have mulled wine and festive food including roast member for culture, leisure and sport says: “Bankside is the the Old Vic Theatre Company. “It chestnuts and a hog roast. place to be this Christmas. Husky sledding has to be one is a fantastic opportunity for us to Bankside Gallery is offering visitors the chance to win a of the most fun things on offer for children in the festive showcase all that Waterloo has to weekend break in the New Forest. Over the weekend there period and the fair is also a great way for companies to offer, from its quirky, independent will be family workshops run by attractions and busineses to start off their office parties - and it doesn’t involve booking businesses to world class arts give a hands-on experience of real Bankside. ahead. activity and an active and engaged Better Bankside has put together a Frost Fair Package “Being able to bring the historic Frost Fair back to local community. Waterloo which includes an overnight stay at the Novotel, Mercure life has been a great achievement and will guarantee that Quarter Business Alliance is or Southwark Rose Hotels, free entry to Shakespeare’s Bankside sparkles again this winter. delighted to be leading on this.” FRANK HARRIS Spice of India and COMPANY AUTHENTIC RECIPES freshly prepared by RESIDENTIAL SALES, LETTINGS and MANAGEMENT our award-winning chef 123 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NN 020 7620 3400 www.frankharris.co.uk NOW OPEN Open 7 days a week 12 noon-2.30pm & 5.30pm-11.30pm Takeaway – 10% discount a warm welcome awaits you at 65 The Cut • South Bank • SE1 8LL 020 7928 1286•020 7928 5280 December 2006 2 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 FOOD & DRINK South Bank in SE1 Joe’s Kitchen fireworks on 27 Blackfriars Road 5-7 Marshalsea Road • 020 7939 1490 London SE1 8NY Details of Joe’s Kitchen and all SE1 restaurants at www.London-SE1.co.uk New Year’s Eve TEL 020 7633 0766 Joe’s Kitchen just along from Borough Station is a FAX 020 7401 2521 The South Bank will be EMAIL [email protected] bright spot on an otherwise dull stretch of road. lit up by fireworks on WEB www.inSE1.co.uk The light wood tables and simple decor gives this café the feel of a Scandinavian coffee house. But the rare tins of Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls from New Year’s Eve. © 2006 Bankside Press Wigan remind us that this is England. The display, organised by the ISSN 1750-1334 (Print) There is a communal table as well as tables for two and even high chairs for Mayor of London in conjunction with ISSN 1750-1342 (Online) children. A pile of papers or toys can be enjoyed as you wait for your food or Visit London, will be on the river next just enjoy the good coffee (cappuccino £1.95). to the British Airways London Eye. EDITOR Service was swift but we experienced a wait for our food. However, when it This year’s display is being Leigh Hatts came we knew why. It was freshly cooked and hot but not hot from being under produced by award winning London a hotplate. The dishes of the day such as Cumberland sausage and mash (£7.95) based experiential communications PRODUCTION EDITOR agency Jack Morton Worldwide James Hatts are on a blackboard. Specialities include Roasted Mediterranean Vegetarian Pie with feta cheese, pine nuts and salad (£7.95). and internationally renowned pyrotechnician Christophe CONTRIBUTORS Our cottage pie was unusually in pastry and came with swede, carrots and Berthonneau. Marion Marples potatoes (£7.95). The burger was huge with a fried egg, chips and salad (£8.50). Both were filling. The show is being designed to be PRINTED BY Copyprints Ltd The takeaway menu has sandwiches (from £4.25) and a croque monsieur big enough, and loud enough, to be (£4.95). seen from high ground, balconies and ADVERTISING It is hard to believe that this is a chain but it is underneath the Joe’s Kitchen gardens all over the capital and it is For details of our competitive HQ which is maybe why the standard is so high. being screened uninterrupted live on rates call us for a rate card BBC One. on 020 7633 0766 or email Last year, around 150,000 people [email protected]. You can also Check out our comprehensive are estimated to have watched the download our rate card from capital’s New Year’s Eve fireworks www.inSE1.co.uk guide to local restaurants & pubs with millions more seeing the it on television across the UK and overseas. SUBSCRIPTIONS Mayor of London Ken To receive the next 12 issues Livingstone says: “London now hosts by post in the UK please send a cheque for £8 to the address www.London-SE1.co.uk/restaurant the best New Year’s Eve fireworks above, made payable to ‘in SE1’. display in the world and is seen Please specify starting issue. on TV by millions in Britain and tens of millions internationally. LISTINGS INFORMATION in The New Year’s Eve fireworks are Listings are free; details of another spectacle, making London a events to be considered for CALL the YARD wonderful city to visit over Christmas inclusion next month should and the New Year.” be sent by Wednesday 20 Most of the big and December by email or by post. successful local firms New Year Events DISCLAIMER do when Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of they have Bankside our listings but all details something to www.thelionspart.co.uk are subject to alteration by Saturday 6 January say and they TWELTH NIGHT venues and organisers and no 12 noon; free responsibility can be accepted would like us A celebration of the New Year, for any inaccuracies. mixing ancient seasonal customs with contemporary festivity. It is free, to give a sharp accessible to all and happens whatever the weather. To herald the celebration, londonse1 edge to it. the extraordinary Holly Man decked community website in fantastic green garb and evergreen foliage, appears from the River Thames PRINT brought by the Thames Cutter Master We also publish a community COPIES Shipbroker (boat subject to weather!). website, updated daily with With the crowd, led by the Bankside REPORTS Mummers, the Holly Man ‘brings in the local news and features and a green’ and ‘wassails’ or toasts the people lively discussion forum. Visit it BROCHURES and the River Thames - an old tradition today at www.London-SE1.co.uk encouraging good growth. The Globe is Communication wassailed in like fashion. The Mummers of all kinds then process to the Bankside Jetty, and perform the traditional ‘freestyle’ Folk Combat Play of St George.